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[–]Rubenb 3 points4 points ago

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I think the problem is that you they would need an elaborate system to verify that people aren't submitting fake clicks, and inflating the view count to try to game the system.

[–]ketralnis 8 points9 points ago

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And we'd need to have our servers processing every outbound link, which raises privacy concerns

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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What would be gained by inflating the click count (particularly if it was on the inside page and one couldn't rank posts by it)?

[–]binlargin 1 point2 points ago

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You could easily track the number of unique, logged in viewers of the comments section, but to track click-throughs AFAIK you'd need to actually break the URL itself.

[–]chrajohn 0 points1 point ago

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This would lead to a lot of whining when the numbers of votes and clicks where out of sync. "Hey, someone [up|down]voted without reading the link!" Sometimes it might be justified. Sometimes, for example, I might upvote an article I already read in my RSS reader. Either way it seems like this leads to pointless drama.

[–]thibit 0 points1 point ago

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Methinks this might be an interesting reddit gold feature.